Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:34:59 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About extensible prinf(3), a slightly long X-mas card Message-ID: <23883.1134815699@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:28:35 GMT." <20051217102835.GC33190@uk.tiscali.com>
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In message <20051217102835.GC33190@uk.tiscali.com>, Brian Candler writes: >Perhaps the semantics of this extended printf() are so far divorced from the >standard one that you might as well just call it something else? e.g. > > ext_printf() the reasons not to are ext_printf() ext_fprintf() ext_sprintf() ext_snprintf() ext_asprintf() ext_vprintf() ext_vfprintf() ext_vsfprintf() ext_vasfprintf() There is little or no point in replicating all of this stuff. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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